To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.